Complete Genome Sequence of Rahel, a C1 Cluster Mycobacteriophage

Fernando E Nieto-Fernandez; Christos Noutsos; Jillian Nissen; Yara Abdelsalam; Jessica Ackloo; Navpreet Banger; Hason Chan; Tarana Chittineedi; Isabel Duplessy; Mark Dyce; Daesha Garrison; Jaime Gonzalez; Sandra John; Imanjot Kahlon; Tania Kumar; Adwoa Lewis; Karthik Madhira; Rivka Mullokandova; Nellie Pirzadeh; Iman Raja; Kevin Ram; Ravi Ramdhari; Rita Reddy; Briana S Saed; Phalan Smith; Steeve Sproul; Jane Thomas; Avia Yossefi; Jorge Morales

doi:10.1128/MRA.01071-20

Complete Genome Sequence of Rahel, a C1 Cluster Mycobacteriophage

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Nov 5;9(45):e01071-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01071-20.

Authors

Fernando E Nieto-Fernandez¹, Christos Noutsos², Jillian Nissen², Yara Abdelsalam², Jessica Ackloo², Navpreet Banger², Hason Chan², Tarana Chittineedi², Isabel Duplessy², Mark Dyce², Daesha Garrison², Jaime Gonzalez², Sandra John², Imanjot Kahlon², Tania Kumar², Adwoa Lewis², Karthik Madhira², Rivka Mullokandova², Nellie Pirzadeh², Iman Raja², Kevin Ram², Ravi Ramdhari², Rita Reddy², Briana S Saed², Phalan Smith², Steeve Sproul², Jane Thomas², Avia Yossefi², Jorge Morales³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biological Sciences, SUNY Old Westbury, Old Westbury, New York, USA nietof@oldwestbury.edu.
² Department of Biological Sciences, SUNY Old Westbury, Old Westbury, New York, USA.
³ The City College of New York, New York, New York, USA.

Abstract

Rahel is a lytic Myoviridae bacteriophage that infects Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155. It has 1,555,955 bp and 64.7% G+C content. Rahel has a circularly permuted genome with 270 genes, 53 of them of known function, 33 tRNAs, and 1 transfer-messenger RNA (tmRNA). Only five genes are coded on the reverse strand.